President Joe Biden's pro-immigration border secretary extended a temporary amnesty for 850,000 illegal and semi-legal economic immigrants until 2026, further suppressing American wages and driving up rents.
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) amnesty has been extended to 18 months. announced By outgoing Border Commissioner Alejandro Mayorkas.
Beneficiaries include 234,000 undocumented immigrants from El Salvador who first received TPS status after the 2001 earthquake that devastated their home country's economy. The economy of this small country is now is growing President Nayib Boukre, who is popular among the people, is in the midst of a successful crackdown on gang crime.
Mayorkas' press statement then blamed bad weather for refusing to let economic migrants home.
El Salvador's TPS extension is based on geological and meteorological phenomena that continue to impact areas hit hard by the 2001 earthquake, including significant storms and heavy rains in 2023 and 2024.
The agency is “automatically extending” [work permits] Until March 9, 2026,” Mayorkas added.
The mass amnesty declaration also includes 600,000 economic migrants from Venezuela.
Mayorkas said:
After checking the situation in each country, Venezuela After consulting with interagency partners, we believe that an 18-month extension of TPS is warranted given the serious humanitarian emergency that the country continues to face due to the political and economic crisis under the inhumane Maduro regime. It was determined that These conditions contribute to high levels of crime and violence and impact access to food, medicine, health care, water, electricity, and fuel.
The amnesty award is a political windfall for Venezuela's Cuba-backed dictator, in part because up to 600,000 dissidents will take U.S. jobs instead of protesting in Venezuela's streets. Because it is useful.
The U.S. government also allows immigrants to send money back to their families back home. However, these funds helped the tattered dictatorship hire the police needed to suppress the pro-democracy movement.
Over the past few decades, the U.S. government has sought to promote democracy in South America, seeking to extract immigrants who lower wages and inflate rents for use by U.S. employers in American communities. It wasn't.
Under Mayorkas, the number of immigrants receiving TPS amnesty tripled to about 1 million. That population includes many Haitian immigrants who were invited to Springfield, Ohio for work and housing.
The new announcement also extends TPS for migrants from Ukraine and Sudan.
In his final weeks in office, Mayorkas has expanded opportunities for foreign graduates to take white-collar jobs in the United States. He also helps foreign graduates jump from employment to green card and citizenship queues.
The new TPS amnesty was praised by business and ethnic lobbies profiting from the influx of renters, customers, workers and political dependents.
“Hundreds of thousands of people will continue to be protected and able to live safely in the United States, contribute to their communities, support their families, and strengthen social security. [U.S.] said FWD.us, a major corporate-funded lobbying group for illegal and legal immigrants.
Congressman Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said in a statement, “This decision leaves hundreds of thousands of people unable to safely return to their home countries due to ongoing environmental and political crises. It will bring relief and stability to the people.” .
But El Salvador's pardon may be quietly welcomed by President Donald Trump's surrogates, who face mounting tasks in the first months of his administration, said Mark Kri, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. Corian said.
Krikorian said Trump administration officials would have faced a March deadline on whether to approve or end amnesty for Salvadoran immigrants, adding:
This way, they will address this issue later in the administration, when they have time to prepare the full explanation they need to explain why they are not renewing TPS. [for El Salvador]. So, in a way, this is a kind of gift to Mr. Trump.
But he added that the concerns expressed by Mayorkas about El Salvador's bad weather are “pathetic.” He continued:
When updating Honduras TPS [in a prior year]One of the reasons was that there was a blight on the coffee trees, called “coffee rust” on the leaves, and that this was the reason why people were not allowed to return to Honduras.
El Salvador's TPS amnesty expires in September 2026.
The Venezuela extension also gives President Trump time to decide what to do with the huge numbers of Venezuelan immigrants that Mayorkas and Biden are welcoming.
President Trump has a shaky record on this issue. provided In January 2021, some legal compensation, but not work permits, was extended to Venezuelan migrants who arrived before Biden took office.
